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A June confrontation involving a CJP protester’s father has grown into a wider legal controversy involving an alleged assault, SC/ST Act provisions, a separate POCSO case and threats against a minor activist New Delhi, September 15, 2026: The controversy surrounding social-media figure Swatantra Bhardwaj has developed from a June confrontation at Delhi's Jantar Mantar into a wider legal dispute involving allegations of assault, caste-based abuse, online threats and competing claims over what happened during the confrontation. The latest development came on September 15 , when a Delhi court granted Bhardwaj three weeks' interim bail in the case concerning the alleged assault of Sanjay Azad , father of teenage CJP activist Nishu Aazad . The temporary relief does not amount to an acquittal and does not bring the criminal proceedings to an end. The case has attracted attention because of Bhardwaj's social-media profile, his own statements about the confrontation, the sub...

New Delhi | 28 July 2026 The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] has alleged that Delhi Police entered its headquarters, AKG Bhavan , in New Delhi in an attempt to arrest Students' Federation of India (SFI) Joint Secretary Aishe Ghosh , leading to a confrontation between party leaders and police personnel. According to CPI(M), the police team arrived in a private vehicle, with some personnel allegedly in plain clothes. The party said Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas questioned the officers' presence inside the party headquarters and asked them to produce the warrant, following which the police team left the premises without making an arrest. CPI(M) General Secretary M.A. Baby described the incident as an unlawful attempt to arrest Ghosh and alleged that she had been under surveillance in recent days. The party also criticised the police action, describing it as an attack on democratic rights and linking it to the ongoing student protests. Delhi Police, however, said t...

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